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About Parallel: History Timeline

Who lived at the same time as Mozart, Van Gogh, or Napoleon? Parallel lays out several timelines at once, and the connections that usually stay hidden appear at a glance. It's your tool for assembling history around what interests you. Nine curated collections come built in, from the arts and sciences to rulers, empires, buildings, and the events that shaped history. They make it easy to start and give you a taste of what Parallel can do. The rest is yours to shape. For the curious, for the classroom, for everyone who loves history. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Swipe and zoom through the millennia, from antiquity to today. • Line up exactly the collections that fascinate you. • Highlight a person and see their contemporaries at a glance, while everything else fades into the background. • Open any entry for a clear, concise biography or summary, with a link to Wikipedia. • Bring dates and the Wikipedia link straight from Wikidata into your own entry. • Follow a single thread through time, filtered by topic, place, era, and more. • Create your own collections and fill them with what matters to you. Every built-in entry is carefully researched, historically grounded, and fact-checked. Try it for free Ancient Rome is included as a ready-made sample collection, no Pro needed. In a few seconds you see how a collection comes together, and it stays with you afterwards. Buy once, no subscription. You buy Parallel just once. The Pro upgrade lifts every limit: unlimited collections and entries, creating and filling your own collections from a spreadsheet or from copied text, your own copies of the built-in collections, and exporting the whole timeline as a PDF. No hidden costs. If you want to go deeper into specific topics, optional premium collections are available. Private and offline Your entries stay on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no tracking. The app works offline. Only the Wikidata look-up needs an internet connection. History belongs to everyone, but your data belongs to you.

What’s new

Version 1.3.0 · Updated September 14, 2026

In this version I mainly worked on making your own entries quicker to create. Search a name instead of typing When you create an entry, you no longer have to type everything yourself. Just search the name on Wikidata, and the dates, type, a short description and the Wikipedia link go straight into the form. This needs an internet connection, everything else still works offline. Tidier collections Parallel Pro and the premium packs now sit together. The pack cards fold away, so your own collections start higher up. Plus many small improvements. Zooming and jumping on the timeline are more reliable, switching quickly between tabs is stable, and a few entries have been brought up to date.

App privacy

The developer, Anatol Knotek, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Alternatives to Parallel: History Timeline

Looking for apps like Parallel: History Timeline? Here are 6 similar apps on the App Store. The highest rated is World History Encyclopedia (4.9/5), and all 6 are free to download.

Parallel: History Timeline vs. alternatives
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Parallel: History Timeline 4.0 / 5 (1 rating) Free September 14, 2026
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World Timeline 3.4 / 5 (5) Free Sep 21, 2026
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